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Lick of the Week Lesson 29

This week’s lick uses the Am pentatonic scale with some added diatonic arpeggios.

The arpeggios used are a C major triad (C E G) and D major triad (D F# A). These are built from the 3rd and 4th degrees of the Am pentatonic scale. In this lick, the pentatonic scale is built from the second degree of G major, so it comes from the Dorian scale as apposed to the 6th degree Aeolian scale in previous examples.

Here you can see the notes of the G major scale with the common notes of the pentatonic scale and arpeggios:

Again if you’d rather just try these ideas, just play the triads off the 3rd (C major) or 4th (Dmajor) of the pentatonic scale. The use of triads creates an interesting intervallic type sound especially when sequenced up the neck like in the example.